Hello Everyone,
I have been looking up rooting my HTV EVO 4g and have realized I have Hboot 2.18
I have been searching and found the way to downgrade and root to get s-off but my question is that at this moment I was just wanting to do it to run GameCIH 2 to mess with a few games I have(have a lot of time on phone) but says i need root access. I understand HTVdev.com has the way to unlock the bootloader but it keeps s-on must i go through the multiple tutorials to achieve s-off to run this program? also if i do go through doing all this is there a way to bring it back to stock in case something happens to the phone i dont want to shell out a few hundred bucks for a new one.(i do understand there is always a chance at bricking it) anyway thanks again for any incite.
Farsinchia said:
Hello Everyone,
I have been looking up rooting my HTV EVO 4g and have realized I have Hboot 2.18
I have been searching and found the way to downgrade and root to get s-off but my question is that at this moment I was just wanting to do it to run GameCIH 2 to mess with a few games I have(have a lot of time on phone) but says i need root access. I understand HTVdev.com has the way to unlock the bootloader but it keeps s-on must i go through the multiple tutorials to achieve s-off to run this program? also if i do go through doing all this is there a way to bring it back to stock in case something happens to the phone i dont want to shell out a few hundred bucks for a new one.(i do understand there is always a chance at bricking it) anyway thanks again for any incite.
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If your not planning on flashing roms you just want root might aswell use the HTCdev to unlock the bootloader and just get root
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im not planning on flashing roms just would like to you GameCIH 2 atm. so if i just you the HTVdev.com unlock do i have to go about getting my phone to s-off and then proceed with any root way?
Farsinchia said:
im not planning on flashing roms just would like to you GameCIH 2 atm. so if i just you the HTVdev.com unlock do i have to go about getting my phone to s-off and then proceed with any root way?
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Your only going to want s-off if you plan on flashing roms. Let me get on my pc real quick so i can find you a guide
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thank you very much for you help
also do you know if this will void my warranty as i would like to not HAVE to buy a new one if something happens to this one
thanks again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473373&highlight=how+to+root+hboot+2+18 your going to want to follow steps 1-27 and if you follow correctly you will have root access. The other steps are if your planning on getting s-off so just ignore everything after step 27
cool thanks again
evo4gnoob said:
Your only going to want s-off if you plan on flashing roms. Let me get on my pc real quick so i can find you a guide
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Just to clarify - with an unlocked bootloader and S-ON, you can still flash ROMs. Especially if you're already out of warranty, all you need to do is the HTCDev unlock process.
So S-ON just means you can't use PC36IMG.zip method for flashing recoveries, radios, etc., but fastboot, correct?
xfullmetal17 said:
So S-ON just means you can't use PC36IMG.zip method for flashing recoveries, radios, etc., but fastboot, correct?
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with s-on unlocked you cant flash radios and and you cant write to certain partitions on the phone
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So S-ON just means you can't use PC36IMG.zip method for flashing recoveries, radios, etc., but fastboot, correct?
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You can use the PC36IMG.zip method to flash a recovery, but the file has to be prepared specifically for it to work. As far as the other stuff goes, please see the post above this one .
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Hey everyone I just wanted to know if there's an easy way to unroot or just get s-on so I can take my EVO to sprint for repair...I've searched for some stuff and found that there is an s-on tool zip from unrevoked and the unroot method but I was wondering if I would be able to just get s-on for repair and then get s-off via another zip or adb...I have rooted using the unrevoked method and I have the .76 eng bootloader
Open to any suggestions...just trying to find the quickest and easiest way to save root if at all possible...thanks in advance
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sprint wont even look if you're using a stock rom they wont even notice, they will only notice if you are running a modded os
kingakuma said:
sprint wont even look if you're using a stock rom they wont even notice, they will only notice if you are running a modded os
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Well I was gonna flash a stock rom but I read that if they see s-off in hboot they'll void my insurance and warranty
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thebeast614 said:
Well I was gonna flash a stock rom but I read that if they see s-off in hboot they'll void my insurance and warranty
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It all depends on the sprint store, the tech that's looking at it, and if that tech got laid the night before. Its unpredictable. Most probably wouldn't even check, but its possible to get that one tech that plays by the rules and takes life too seriously. I say unroot it to be safe.
If you're on the Eng. 76 bootloader, you're always going to be s off, until you change bootloader. You said you also ran unrevoked at some point? I would just flash the unrevoked s on tool, and then run an ruu, and be done with it. Then you don't have to worry. I'm the type that'd rather be safe than sorry, and have.my account flagged.
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Ok I'm going to try to explain this as simply as I can. First let me start by stating that I have searched high and low through XDA and about a dozen other websites in two hours with NO luck.
First, I downloaded CM7 and installed ClockWorkMod Recovery.
Second, I had it reboot in to recovery only to find myself staring a black screen with white bars. Upon further research I come to find that this panel type (slcd) is incompatible with recovery console (RLY?!) and that I am looking at the recovery console, its just blocked by a huge black image.
Third, I take it upon myself and figure I can just use ADB/SDK to flash this friggin' thing through the CMD prompt. But Ha-Ha this is not possible as I have S-ON listed in the HBOOT Menu
Fourth, I found a way to switch to S-OFF but come to find two things. One, this requires use of the recovery console which is inaccessible to me. Secondly, under the "Compatibility" list for the Droid Inc1 on Unrevoked Forever's site, it does not have the most recent Radio listed (Mine is currently 2.15.10.10.07.07 and theres no way in hell I'm attempting this with that said)
Does anyone have any suggestions or should I just give up?
Since your s-on you will need to do an ruu.exe, the one with your pc. (http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=22) This will get you back to stock recovery. If you then want to go s-off you will need to downgrade with scottys downgrade tutorial found in the general section i believe, and then use unrevoked to gain s-off and root.
Thank you sir
I already had root through Unrevoked 1-click, I'll try this and see if I can flash Cyanogen through the ADB Shell.
Thanks!
Nechen said:
Thank you sir
I already had root through Unrevoked 1-click, I'll try this and see if I can flash Cyanogen through the ADB Shell.
Thanks!
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I am not sure what you mean by having root and CM7? You mention in the OP that you still have S-ON? Not sure how you rooted and flashed an alternate ROM with S-ON...
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WookieFan said:
I am not sure what you mean by having root and CM7? You mention in the OP that you still have S-ON? Not sure how you rooted and flashed an alternate ROM with S-ON...
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I think you might be confusing S-off with Root, the two are not synonymous.
I had s-on the entire time, I just realized it about a month ago, I still had recovery, custom roms, ect.
So I've recently gotten my Desire Z rooted, and I'm trying to install a custom ROM.
However Clockwork keeps telling me that my phone is not rooted, ("You must root your phone for ROM Manager to function. Superuser was not found at "/system/bin/su" or "/system/xbin/su"".
Even so my phone has SU installed as well as busybox. How do I need to go about fixing this?
Thank you for any help!
first of all what method did you follow to gain root?
also do any other rooted apps work? setcpu, titanium, adfree ?
I used the HTCdev method to unlock my bootloader then I used the Fre3vo exploit and pushed the superuser and busybox apks and installed them both.
Titanium does not work either.
I believe in order to get the su to work you have to actually flash it as a .zip the first time. Also, do you have s.off? That htcdev.com method is horse crap if you ask me, though it will get you unlocked.
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It managed to get my bootloader unlocked.
But no I don't have S-off. Would having flashed it from a .zip changed anything else?
Also I can flash ClockWorkRecovery without even a little bit of an Issue.
well s-off means no root, follow the wiki, downgrade and then root.
the htc unlocked bootloader is just a stepping stone leading to nowhere
probably the most you will get out of it is confirming your g2 is void of warranty with htc
so follow the wiki, it isnt to hard and you will be much happier than trying to cheat your way into root!
good luck!
Alright, well thanks for your help fellas!
no problem, just make sure you read the wiki first and understand it, if not search the threads and im sure someone has had the same question. but over all it takes from 30min for the experienced up to 2hrs if your lost the whole time. leave the appropriate amount of time and youll be a happy camper soon enough!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1453066
This is the thread you need to follow if you have already used htcdev method. You will have to relock bootloader, then downgrade, then root and s.off.
Also, if you have any further problems talk to that nipqer, he is really good.
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mrbmg said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1453066
This is the thread you need to follow if you have already used htcdev method. You will have to relock bootloader, then downgrade, then root and s.off.
Also, if you have any further problems talk to that nipqer, he is really good.
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This was the guide I followed and it just seems to be against me!
EDIT: Never mind! Finally got it to work! I now have custom ROMs again! Thanks for all the help!
If you join that irc channel, all those guys are on there and will walk you through it step by step.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision#Rooting_the_G2
follow this guide, since you have "the official HTC unlocked bootloader" which as i said before is almost worthless (not complaining to you but to htc) i believe you need to do a few things first before you can downgrade, you need to be at froyo for this method to work, dont have time to search for you right now but im sure you'll find the appropriate steps to take if you search a little
HTC Unlock only lets you flash ROMs through fastboot. As already mentioned, it doesn't give you root, S-Off, and you can't flash straight from ROM Manager or recovery.
hey i just got a droid incredible from my sister (not going to use it as a phone) and i would like to root it and flash a custom ROM, im sorta know about rooting and flashing but i keep looking for ways to root this phone and its way difficult for me. i am not about to use adb or android sdk for some reason they never work with methods for my other phones. not sure how to get to recovery just goes to a hboot screen which i see is normal. a lot of the links are broken on methods to root i see that unrevoked dosent work with 2.3.4. and im really frustrated with this phone. it has 2.3.4. S-ON and hboot 1.0.7 i don't know how to do the radio stuff please help.
Trozzul said:
hey i just got a droid incredible from my sister (not going to use it as a phone) and i would like to root it and flash a custom ROM, im sorta know about rooting and flashing but i keep looking for ways to root this phone and its way difficult for me. i am not about to use adb or android sdk for some reason they never work with methods for my other phones. not sure how to get to recovery just goes to a hboot screen which i see is normal. a lot of the links are broken on methods to root i see that unrevoked dosent work with 2.3.4. and im really frustrated with this phone. it has 2.3.4. S-ON and hboot 1.0.7 i don't know how to do the radio stuff please help.
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The only way to root 2.3.4 is to unlock your bootloader using htcdev unlock, then use fastboot (an android sdk program) to flash a custom recovery. Once you have the recovery installed, you can flash a rom of your choosing. There are no one click options available since the inc got gingerbread. It requires a bunch of steps, but isnt all that hard. Here is a working guide if you decide to take the plunge. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506258. Note that you do not need s-off to flash a rom, but you do need s-off to flash radios, hboots, and splash screens.
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Howdy! Lemme preface all of this by saying that I'm less than a noob here....really inexperienced. Here's the background......
I rooted my DInc and I can't even remember which unrevoked tool I used. I was just reading along and punching commands and when the process was done I was rooted. I installed CWM successfully and flashed to CM7.2 which I've been running for quite some time. Lately I got an itch to try a JB ROM like infected, so when I looked into it, it clearly says I need S-off to accomplish that flash so I checked and realized I was S-on still.
At this point, I added the unrevoked-forever.zip to my sdcard root and tried to flash that ZIP by way CWM and i get these error messages:
E: unsupported radio version
E: update failed. Check/sdcard/soff.log
E: error in /sdcard/unrevoked-forever.zip (Status 42)
I am running Android version 2.3.7 and radio baseband version 2.15.10.12.20
Is this one of those things that I shouldn't be trying from CM7.2 and I should've dealt with before my initial flash to CM7.2?? Basically I'm totally freakin lost and in WAAAAY over my element, so any guidance would be duly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Scott
Just going to leave this right here...
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Read the page, tell me what your issue is, and we'll go from there.
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Just going to leave this right here...
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever
Read the page, tell me what your issue is, and we'll go from there.
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Sorry....i guess it pays to be extra thorough in the description of the problem. The link you left me is the one that I followed. I researched achieving S-Off on the DInc first and found this same page in my research. I followed the process and all went smooth right up until i started to flash the unrevoked-forever.zip from my sdcard via CWM. The aforementioned error messages came up on my phone and it said the process failed.
I thought it might be because the radio baseband versions that are list as "supported" do not match mine
smvogel73 said:
I thought it might be because the radio baseband versions that are list as "supported" do not match mine
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Sounds good to me. With the way HTC handles S-OFF, you don't really need it. I'd go the legit way and unlock your bootloader with HTCdev.
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Edit: and for the record, you're lucky you didn't brick your device. Reading the supported requirements and ignoring them is a good way to do it.
PonsAsinorem said:
Sounds good to me. With the way HTC handles S-OFF, you don't really need it. I'd go the legit way and unlock your bootloader with HTCdev.
http://www.htcdev.com/bootloader/
Edit: and for the record, you're lucky you didn't brick your device. Reading the supported requirements and ignoring them is a good way to do it.
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Yes thx....I'm gathering that! So this is where terminology gets so dang confusing for me. I didn't think unlocking my bootloader meant the same thing as achieving S-Off?? I already thought my bootloader was unlcoked, as I was able to flash CM7.2, which I didnt think I would be able to do if I had a locked bootloader. So wicked confused!!! And try as I miught to educate myself in these forums, I haven't located a sticky or guide that really thoroughly explains all the vernacular regarding android dev/modding/rooting/flashing/etc
So this other method will work with any radio baseband version then?? Or is it important to check compatibility there too??
What's the very top of your HBOOT say, UNLOCKED? Some more reading:
S-Off vs Unlocked, and flashing firmware
About Unlock and S-ON
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What's the very top of your HBOOT say, UNLOCKED? Some more reading:
S-Off vs Unlocked, and flashing firmware
About Unlock and S-ON
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It says "UNLOCKED" and below that it says "S-ON
Thank u for the materials too!
So after looking at those two links, it sure seems like not only is S-Off a potentially dangerous thing to do, it might also not even be necessary on the long-run. I say that carefully tho, as u just got thru telling me that flashing a new ROM against spec is a very dangerous thing to do and could potentially brick mu phone.
The ROM I'm looking to flash is Infection JB 4.2.2. The instructions say that if you're coming from. A non-AOSP ROM and are S-On that you've gotta extract boot.img and fastboot it after the ROM flash......whatever the heck that means???
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So after looking at those two links, it sure seems like not only is S-Off a potentially dangerous thing to do, it might also not even be necessary on the long-run.???
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Correct. Staying S-ON minimizes the danger. It locks your radio, and HBOOT, which are the main dangers.
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I say that carefully tho, as u just got thru telling me that flashing a new ROM against spec is a very dangerous thing to do and could potentially brick mu phone.???
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Not really ROM flashing, but radio and HBOOT flashing, which is what unrevoked-forever tweaks.
I'd try to flash it one more time. When you do, what, if anything, are you wiping? You should be doing a factory reset, system, and boot wipe/format, then flash the ROM.
If that doesn't work (it might not, it's been awhile since I've worked with S-ON devices), then we'll move on to S-OFF (if you want).
Oh no.....I didn't even attempt to flash the Infection JB ROM specifically because I was not able to achieve S-Off. Whether it was intended or not, yea.....u sufficiently scared me about bricking the phone if I'm not to spec per the developer.
Are u saying I should wipe and then try to flash this ROM despite still being S-On?
Up to you. Personally, if it were me, I would try flashing the ROM with S-ON. The inc is a very friendly device, as long as you don't try to break the HBOOT and/or radios. It is next to impossible to break those with S-ON.
If you want to go S-OFF instead, grab the latest supported radio from http://dinc.does-it.net/ and then do the unrevoked-forever.
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Up to you. Personally, if it were me, I would try flashing the ROM with S-ON. The inc is a very friendly device, as long as you don't try to break the HBOOT and/or radios. It is next to impossible to break those with S-ON.
If you want to go S-OFF instead, grab the latest supported radio from http://dinc.does-it.net/ and then do the unrevoked-forever.
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Well there you have it....I will trust your wisdom (as it is far supperior to my own) and I shall flash this ROM tonight!! I already have a nandroid backup of CM7.2 that Im running, as well as a Titanium backup of all my user apps/files.
Sincerest thanks for all your help!!
Hello. Im no expert but i think Cyanogenmod is aosp so you should be good.
I was where you were 2 yrs ago when I rooted my 1st phone: a friends froyo Dinc (ahhh...froyo). A few months ago I aquired my own and went to research how to root GB and everything has changed and is now vastly more complicated. Also I think every phone has a locked bootloader but not encrypted and I think Soff is extra security since I've only encountered it on htc phones. Anyway I've managed to get my inc to Soff but its still locked, idk how lol
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